TRIALS

Overview

The national Trans reliability trials are designed as training rides to test mind, body and equipment ahead of the summer ultras such as the Transcontinental. They are held on first full weekend of the month from April to June each year. They are predominantly road based but some riders may take gravel shortcuts as they are free to choose their route between the checkpoints. The distances and complexity of the route planning steps up each month. Only two people in the history of TRC have completed TransEngland, TransWales, and TransScotland in a season.

The national XDURO bikepacking trials are held on first full weekend of the month from July to September each year. These are fixed route gravel rides; EnglanDURO is a nice intro to bikepacking, WalesDURO is beautiful, and ScotDURO is pretty full on.

In addition we have a growing number of one-day XDURO rides which serve as tasters for the longer trials.

Calendar for 2020

​3-4 April 2020 - TransEngland - #transengland20

1-2 May 2020 - TransWales - #transwales20

16 May 2020 - one-day ride - GlenDURO - #glenduro20

6-7 June 2020 - TransScotland - #transscotland20

13 June 2020 - one-day ride - OxDURO - #oxduro20

27 June - 7 July 2020 - GBDURO - #GBDURO20

27 June 2020 - one-day ride - CotsDURO - #cotsduro20

4-5 July 2020 - WalesDURO - #walesduro20

1-2 August 2020 - EnglanDURO - #englanduro20

29-30 August 2020 - Social ride - pubduro North York Moors - #pubduroNYM20

5-6 September 2020 - ScotDURO - #scotduro20

3 October 2020 - one-day ride - PennDURO - #pennduro20​

​Provisional calendar for 2021 (to be confirmed 1 Jan 2021)

​2-3 April 2021 - TransEngland - #transengland21

7-8 May 2021 - TransWales - #transwales21

15 May 2021 - one-day ride GlenDURO - #glenduro21

5-6 June 2021 - TransScotland - #transscotland21

12-13 June 2021 - 2 x one-day rides - OxDURO - #oxduro21

26 June 2021 - one-day ride - CotsDURO - #cotsduro21

26 June - 6 July 2021 - GBDURO - #GBDURO21

3-4 July 2021 - WalesDURO - #walesduro21

7-8 August 2021 - EnglanDURO - #englanduro21

21-22 August 2021 - Social ride - pubduro North York Moors - #pubduroNYM21